“He takes off… leaving me alone in the middle of the Caribbean.”
Recently,u/francishousemanasked"divorced people: what was the FINAL STRAW?"
and we decided to round up the best responses:
1.
“One of my best mates got divorced.
They’d been obviously unhappy for a while so it wasn’t a complete surprise.
I asked him exactly this question and he answered: ‘She was out with a couple of male co-workers.
I began wondering if she was sleeping with them.
Then I realised that I didn’t even care if she was.
That was when I knew I felt absolutely nothing for her anymore’.”
u/ProJared
“Its so hard to see what other people see when were in the thick of it.”
u/Seastarstiletto
3.
“He was so selfish for years and made excuse after excuse for it.
But he always put me last.
I was ready to leave him, but we made one last big push to make it work.
“Mum left my father when she caught him uploading a naked picture of himself to a pornographic site.
She said she watched him for a good two or three minutes before he noticed her.”
u/RatherLargeBlob
5.
“The day my two-year-old said ‘shut up, bitch’ to me.
I called a lawyer the next morning.”
u/Additional_Host6994
6.
“He made a poor financial decision which almost led to us getting evicted.
He did not tell me until he ‘figured it out’.
However, he discussed the matter with people at work.”
“I was the problem in the marriage.
We were young when we married and I wasnt done being a careless partying person.
Looking back, I was such an ass.
My partner didnt deserve that at all.”
u/TheDrunkScientist
8.
“Our marriage was miserable for both of us.
During a counselling session the counsellor mentioned that some couples are just better off divorced.
It was an off-hand comment not related to us specifically, but for me it was an epiphany.
I realised on the way home that it was over.”
u/sapperbloggs
9.
“One Saturday I said to my then husband, ‘we should take our daughter to the zoo.
It’s such a nice day.’
His reply: ‘I work all week.
I don’t feel like it.’
I worked all week too.
And I was the one that picked her up and dropped her off at day-care every day.
I was a single mum before my divorce, I did everything with my daughter by myself.”
u/GypsyWisp
11. u/lanniepoo
12.
(I had removed the firing pin and I heard the whole thing).”
“I worked non-stop for years to support her ability to pursue her dreams.
When she finally landed her dream job, suddenly we were done.
u/Lycurgus-117
14.
AKA, four days later.”
u/louielouie1987
15.
“The realisation that we had become ‘apartment buddies’ instead of life partners.
It was like we were running a co-habitation business without the benefits.
The romance had moved out, and we were left with joint custody of a fridge.
Time to close that chapter and let the next tenant of love move in.”
“He stole from a subordinate at work and tried to get someone else arrested for it.”
u/doobiroo
17.
“A cheese plate.
I said ‘Omg, I love goat cheese!’
and my friend looked at me and said ‘I know?
You mentioned it the other day so I got some.’
After hed had brain surgery, no less.”
H/T tou/francishousemanand AskReddit for having this discussion!
Note: All submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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